I just adore this portrait of Elizabeth Farren! As soon as I enter the gallery where she is housed (in the European wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art), I swoon. I hardly notice any other portraits around me. It’s just Elizabeth Farren and I in that room. I’m infatuated. In love. But what makes… Continue reading The Portrait of Elizabeth Farren, Painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence (1789)
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What the Fawkes?
What the Fawkes? November 5th is Guy Fawkes Day— a jolly good holiday for British folk where fireworks are set off & Union Jacks are waved. But why? And who the hell is Guy Fawkes?? If these are questions which have troubled you every time November 5th rolls around, & caused you sleepless nights of… Continue reading What the Fawkes?
Medicine in the Age of Miasma
What does this silhouette say to a modern viewer? Does it remind you of Carnival of Venice masks or the mysterious character from V for Vendetta? Maybe you are reminded of the goggle-donning steampunk, or perhaps it just resembles any vague nightmare—a bird-like monster clad in a broad-brimmed hat. Whatever the association, this particular costume… Continue reading Medicine in the Age of Miasma
An Ongoing Romance: Ballets Russes and Fashion
The relationship between art and society has always existed as a symbiosis, where ideas go back-and-forth, are reconsidered, reimagined, and then left for interpretation. One of my favorite dialogues between society and art happens to be between Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes and exoticism in… Continue reading An Ongoing Romance: Ballets Russes and Fashion
In the Pantheon of gods, there are mortals, too…..
Today marks the birthday of Ruby Bridges (b. September 8, 1954), who, at the age of six, endured a trial that would have crushed most adults in its burdensome heft. In the scheme of history, Bridge… Source: In the Pantheon of gods, there are mortals, too…..
Charles Lindbergh: Fixed in Firmament
Charles Lindbergh: Fixed in Firmament.
Charles Lindbergh: Fixed in Firmament
I confess that I adore bold people. (with the exception of people who get too bold on the Jersey Turnpike) I get a tingling sensation down to the end of my toes anytime I read about people pursuing what they believe in, and that feeling becomes inflamed when the pursuit is “against all odds.” Maybe… Continue reading Charles Lindbergh: Fixed in Firmament
Colette…Fantasy dissolves into flesh
Colette…Fantasy into flesh On January 28th, 1873 Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette was born. Who would have imagined that in twenty years’ time, she would start a revolution with her bare breast, provoke the minds of Europe with her pen and wake up the conscience of society with a kiss? Colette was a writer, a dancer, a stage… Continue reading Colette…Fantasy dissolves into flesh
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